KARACHI – The release of the alleged attackers and nominated accused in the Shershah scrap market carnage case was secured under an understanding and pre-planned arrangement between coalition partners Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Today has learnt.
Nine named accused were acquitted by an administrative judge of an Anti Terrorism Court two days ago, after the complainant of the case could not recognise the accused in an identification parade before the court. “In an unofficial meeting between the PPP and the MQM, the latter raised the issue of 13 of their workers not being presented before the media or produced before anti terrorism courts.
The PPP, in turn, raised the issue of the nominated accuse in the Shershah scrap market carnage case. Both parties then came to an agreement on the release of their associates,” sources within the Home Department told Pakistan Today.
Sources said that MQM’s 13 workers had been arrested by the police and Rangers from Karachi, and were being investigated by a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) of the ISI, MI, special branch of Sindh police, and the Crime Investigation Unit of Karachi police on charges of target killings.
